Cuff.



R. BRUSSEL.

CUFF.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19. 1918.

Patented Mar. 18,1919.

RICHARD BnUssnL, or NEWYORK, N. Y.

CUFF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

Application filed February 19, 1918. Serial No. 218,169.

citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, borough ofManhattan,

in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Cuffs, of which the following is a.specification.

Some shirts and shirtwa-ists are made with so-called soft or foldablecuffs, which are -usually worn with the free portion folded outwardlyover the part that is attached to the sleeve or wristband.

The object of my invention is to provide means to overlie or oppose thefree edge portions of the cuffs when the latter are folded inwardly toprevent such folded portions of the cuffs from being engaged by thefingers of the user while the hands slide through the sleeves and cufiswhen applying the shirt or shirtwaist to the person, and whereby theedge portions of the infolded cuffs will be kept out of contact withthewrists of the user.

In carrying out my invention I provide a shirt or shirtwaist having softor foldable cuffs with a flap or web located along the inner side of thecuff at the wristband, providing a space to receive and conceal the freeedge portions of the cuffs when the latter are folded. inwardly. Bythemeans described the cuffs may be used on one occasion with the free edgeportion folded outwardly, in the ordinary manner, and on anotheroccasion with the free edge portions of the cuffs folded inwardlyandprotected by the aforesaid flaps or webs.

My invention comprises novel details of improvementand combinations ofparts that will be more fully hereinafter set forth andthen pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof,wherein,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a shirt or shirtwaist sleeveembodying my improvements, showing the cuff folded outwardly in anordinary manner; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the cuff foldedinwardly in accordance with my invention; Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic viewof the inside of a cuff, illustrating my improvements with the cuffunfolded; Fig. 4 is a similar View illustrating the cuff folded inaccordance with my invention; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, on anexaggerated scale, substantially on the line 5, 5, in Fig. 3, and Fig. 6

is a view similar to Fig. 0 illustrating a modification.

' Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral views.

At. 1 is indicated a portion of the sleeve of a shirt or shirtwaist orother garment, and the cuff thereon is indicated generally at 2. Saidcuff is of the softor foldable variety attachedator near one edgeportion to the sleeve, as at 3, by suitable stitching, which cuff isadapted to be folded, as along the fold line indicated at 4 in Fig. 3.The free portion 2 of the cuff is adapted to be folded. either outwardlyin an ordinary manner of use as indicated in Fig. 1, or inwardly asindicated in Figs. 2 and 4. At 5 is indicated a flap or web locatedalong the inner portion of the cuff adjacent to its attachment to thesleeve, to receive the inwardly folded portion 2 of the cuif, which isadapted to be laid or folded between said flap and the main portion 2 ofthe cuff. The flap 5 is suitably attached to the cuff or sleeve, orboth, adj acent to the wristband portion of the sleeve, and said flapextends freely forwardly toward the outer end of the cuff to permit thefoldable portion of the cuff to be concealed behind said flap. The cuffand fiap may be madeinany suitable manner, with or without a lining. InFig. 5 the material of the cuff and of the flap are shown in a singlepiece having the inner webs 6 and 7 (which may provide the lining), andthe outer webs 8 and 9, which provide the exposed or wearing portions ofthe cuff, the web portions 7 and 9 being continued freely beyond thestitching 3 and folded to form the flap 5. Instead of the Webs 6, 7being continuous with the webs 8, 9, the webs 6, 7, may be substitutedby one or more ply of other material for a lining. In Fig. 6 the webs 6,7, 8 and 9 are separate from the flap 5, the latter being shown made offolded material secured at its portion 5 by the stitching 3 to theadjacent portion of the cuff and sleeve. Other details in themanufacture of the cuff and flap may be adopted as may be desired, theessential feature of my invention being the provision of the flap alongthe inner shown of less width than the width of the cufi when folded,and the outer curved corner edge portions 5 of the flap recede from theouter edges of the cuif, spaced from the button holes 10, so as not tobe observed when in use. H

In accordance with my improvements the cuffs may be used with theportion 2 folded outwardly in an ordinary manner, (Fig. 1), and, whendesired, the end may be reversed by folding the portion 2 inwardly andloeating its free portion between the part 2* of the cuff and the flap5, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 5, whereby a clean portion of the cufiwill be exposed. The flap 5, by extending from its attachment to thesleeve or cufi', freely toward the outer end of the cufi, covers thefree edge ofthe portion 2* so that when the hand is pushed through thesleeve and cuff the flap 5 guides the fingers to prevent them fromengaging with the inwardly folded portion 2 of the end, and the positionof such folded portion is not disturbed; Furthermore? the flap 5, whenoverlying the folded portion 2 of the cufi,

retains the latter smoothly in position, and protects it from contactwith the flesh of the user.

While I have referred to my improvemen-teas used in connection withfoldable cuif's, upon sleeves of shirts or shirtwaists, it will beunderstoodthat my invention is equally applicable to other portions ofgarments, such as upon so-called cufis at the bottoms of legs oftrousers.

Another advantage of my invention is that since the cuff may be used atone time as shown in Fig. 1, and-at another time as shown in Fig. 2, thewe aron one side of the cuff may'be reduced, since when the cufi' issoiled it may be reversed, whereby one face of the cufl may be'subjected to approxi- 1. The combination of a sleeve, a foldable I:

cuff attached to the sleeve, and a flapsecured within the sleeve andcufi and having a free portion extending toward'the 'outer end of thecufi to receive therebetween-the free portion of the cuff when thelatter isfolded inwardly, said cuff having button holes locatedoutwardly beyond the flap, the adjacent edges of the flaps I beingspaced;

from said button holes to not interfere with the latter, the mid portionof the flap being suffic-iently wide to retain the folded portion of thecuff when the latter is between the flap and the inner portion of thecuff.

2. The combination of a sleeve, with a cuff secured along one edge ofthe sleeve and adapted to be folded inwardly" and outwardly beyond thesleeve, with flap extending along the inner surface of thecufi' andsecured at its inner portion and free from the'cufii at its'outerportion to receive therebetween the outer edge portion of. the cuff whenthe latter is folded inwardly, said cufl having button holes, the outercorner edge portions of'the flap receding from the outer edges of thecuff, said outer corners of the flap being spaced from said but tonholes to not interfere with the latter.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New Yorkthis 18th dayof February A. D. 1918. RICHARD BRUSSEL,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe' Commissioner of Patents;

' Washington, D. G.

